fdups: calling for beta testers

[Patrick Useldinger]

Hi all,

I am looking for beta-testers for fdups.

fdups is a program to detect duplicate files on locally mounted 
filesystems. Files are considered equal if their content is identical, 
regardless of their filename. Also, fdups ignores symbolic links and is 
able to detect and ignore hardlinks, where available.

In contrast to similar programs, fdups does not rely on md5 sums or 
other hash functions to detect potentially identical files. Instead, it 
does a direct blockwise comparison and stops reading as soon as 
possible, thus reducing the file reads to a maximum.

fdups has been developed on Linux but should run on all platforms that 
support Python.

fdups' homepage is at http://www.homepages.lu/pu/fdups.html, where 
you'll also find a link to download the tar.

I am primarily interested in getting feedback if it produces correct 
results. But as I haven't been programming in Python for a year or so, 
I'd also be interested in comments on code if you happen to look at it 
in detail.

Your help is much appreciated.

-pu